Heel-burnishing tool



(No Model.)

J. H. BUSELL.

HEEL BURNISHING TOOL.

No. 392,716. Patented Nov. 13, 1888.

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HEEL BURNISHING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,716, dated November 13, 1888.

Original application filed October 28,1887, Serial No. 253,606. Divided and this application filed August 28, 188B. ScrialNo.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. BUsELL, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heel-Burnishing Tools, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My present invention relates to heel-burnishing tools, the same being a division of a former application of mine tiled October 28, 1887, No. 253,606; and it consists in a burnishingtool made in two parts and secured together in a manner and bearing a relation to each other which will be best understood by reference to the description of the drawings and to the claims to be hereinafter given.

Figure l of the drawings is a front elevation of my improved burnishing-tool. Fig. 2 is a plan of same and illustrating the manner of presenting the boot or shoe heel thereto for the purpose of bnrnishing the heel edge, and Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating the mam ner of presenting the heel thereto for burnishing the treadsurface thereof.

My improved burnishingtool is madein two parts, A and A, secured together by screws a, the portion A. of said tool being provided with the shank b to fit a socket in the tool-carrier of a burnishing-machine, not shown,) and has the outline of its outer face, as seen in plan or horizontal section, in the form of a section of an ellipse, and is provided with the longitudi nal shoulder a to burnish the top-lift bead. The portion A is also in theform of a section of an ellipse or an arc of a circle of a radius less than the radius of the vertical curve of the heel edge to be burnished, as seen in plan or horizontal section, and both portions A and A are beaded transversely or horizontally ineither direction from the shoulder c, as shown in Fig. 1.

By the use of this compound burnishingtool the central portion of the heel edge can be burnished by placing the heel as indicated at B in Fig. 2, and the heel may be rotated vertically and traversed or rocked laterally at the same time that the burnishin -tool is being reciprocated vertically at great speed without danger of injury to the heel seat or top lift by coming in contact with the tread-guard or any (No model.)

other projection, and then the edge of the top lift, the top-lift bead or bevel, and a portion of the tread-surface may be nicely burnished at one operation by placing the heel as shown at 0, Fig. 2, and rotating the heel vertically; and then by placing the heel in the position indicated at D or I) in Fig. 3 and traversing the heel across the burnishing-tool horizontally at the same time that the burnis'hing-tool is being reciprocated vertically the whole treadsurface of the heel may be nicely burnished, which is an important advantage. Another advantage of this construction is that, by making a series of the parts A, having different curves, and making them interchangeable, the tool may be readily adjusted to fit any pattern of concaved heel edge without removing the main body of the tool.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The within-described burnishing-tool,having two operating-surfaces, each having an outline, as viewed in plan or horizontal section, approximating to a section of an ellipse, and provided with a shoulder located between said elliptical surfaces and adapted to burnish the top-lift bead or bevel.

2. The within-described burnishing-tool, made in two parts detachably secured together and each having an outer or operating face, the outline of which in cross-section approximates a section of an ellipse, substantially as described.

3. The within described burnishing tool, made in two parts detachably secured together and each having an outer or operating face, the outline of which, as viewed in cross-section, approximating to a section of an ellipse, said elliptical surfaces each having formed thereon a series of beads or corrugations extending around the same at right angles, or nearly so, to the line of movement of said tool.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 27th day of August, A. D. 1888.

J AMES H. BUSELL.

\Vitnesses:

N. O. LOMBARD, WALTER E. Lonnann. 

